Google has set its feet in Africa, and takes all the credit for the latest developments in Internet infrastructure, ecommerce and other online activity. Internet speeds have gone up and prices down! More Africans are participating in various online initiatives and the entire ecosystem seems to be growing very fast. Read the full story here - http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/05/15/google-in-africa-its-a-hit/
Although, 16-bit legacy applications may have become something of the past there are still instances of these applications which are considered as critical to some businesses. In fact, last week during a conference I met an IT Manager who said that they still use a 16-bit finance package which was developed for the specific needs of the organization. Although, the organization has upgraded to another package since then, they still need to refer to it as the old data cannot be exported to the new package! The only problem they faced with this legacy application is when they upgraded all systems to 64-bit. In this case, they solved the problem by running the legacy package on a workstation running Windows 7 using Windows XP mode. Since, Windows XP Mode uses 32-bit Windows Professional, they could install and run the 16-bit legacy package. To learn more about Windows XP Mode go here - http://www.windows7library.com/blog/util/windows-xp-mode/
HP today extended its HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) portfolio with new servers that deliver increased performance, simplified maintenance and improved data center uptime. HP also announced new financial, support and partner programs, including the HP ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance, which brings together some of the world's leading technology companies to eliminate manual maintenance tasks and significantly improve data center efficiency. With HP ProLiant Gen8 and its expanded ecosystem of programs, HP is helping organizations transform technology silos to efficient, highly automated IT infrastructures that allow as many as 30 days a year to be reallocated from maintenance tasks to innovation that fuels growth.(1) Delivering greater computing opportunities The expanded HP ProLiant Gen8 line-up includes new servers based on the latest AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processors, Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family and Intel® Xeon® processor E5-4600 product family. Optional enhanced HP PCIe Gen2 IO Accelerators that reduce data access latency enable clients to achieve accelerated application performance and improved compute cycles. To address the growing requirements that span from small and mid-size businesses up to enterprise organizations, HP is offering new HP ProLiant Gen8 rack-and-tower servers and a new blade server with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family: HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8, a rack-optimized one-rack-unit (1U) server that delivers improved serviceability and supports a range of small, mid-size and enterprise organizations. HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8, a rack-optimized two-rack-unit (2U) design that provides improved compute and storage capacity for data center applications. HP ProLiant ML350e Gen8, an expandable two-processor (2P) tower that delivers enterprise-level performance to remote and branch office environments. HP ProLiant BL420c Gen8, a blade server ideal for midmarket and cost-sensitive enterprise customers, offering en
Companies track their marketing campaigns in various ways like, in mass mailshots they add tracking images so that they would get more information about the users who have opened and read their marketing message. They collect users' information such as, IP addresses which help them determine the country, and client software which help them determine the type of operating system, etc. Mike Cardwell takes privacy extremely seriously and has developed and published an online email privacy tester so that users can test if their email client software is set to allow tracking through remote-loading images!!! Check your email client software here - https://emailprivacytester.com/
"Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists," the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said. According to U.K.'s High Court, Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs. However, the court order will neither influence the artists' pockets nor prevent users from accessing the site if they use proxy servers and other techniques!!! Read the full news item here - http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17894176